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Hey, this is Dr. Drew Rubin. Welcome to ChiroSecure’s Disruptive Pediatrics Show. I’m so excited to be here with you guys, especially today. This is gonna be a very interesting show. It’s probably something that you guys have never seen before because it took me a while to find this. This is Modernized Chiropractic.
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This is the first chiropractic textbook came out before some of BJ Palmer’s Green books that were maybe 19 0 6, 19 0 7. So this is, that is not an original. I had to get a copy. But this is an incredible book and I really want to share some of the insights that I’ve. Scattered a garnered reading this thing.
So let’s go to the slides and I’m gonna share some of this amazing wisdom from 1906. I just want you to think about how forward thinking these guys are. Like we already know Didi Palmer, bj, they were like way ahead of their times, but there’s some other people actually that’re way ahead of their times too.
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And that’s Dr. Smith Langworthy Paxon. Now, of course, back in the early days. You know what happened is every Palmer trained everybody, right? And then everybody branched off from Palmer, so you always gotta give Palmer credit where credit’s due. But there they are, right? This is, these are the founders of the first chiropractic textbook, modernized chiropractic.
And I’m excited to share this information with you to talk to you about Dr. Smith, what Langworthy and Paxon said. So in this particular, and first off, interestingly enough, and I didn’t know this until I was researching this they actually, I. Started the American School of Chiropractic, which I believe was something like in Cedar Rapids, Iowa or something.
So it’s not all that far from Davenport. So the and this is it’s the second school of chiropractic that was started. So the first one was Palmers school. Then the second one was in 1903 with these these three at the helm. So let’s talk about this. Very early on in the book, they talk about two words that they feel are the, like the number one and two words in chiropractic.
And the, those two words are thrust and spontaneity. And I, I wouldn’t have picked those two words, if he was saying, true. What do you think about, what’s the best two words to describe chiropractic? That those wouldn’t have been the words I picked. So I’m, I was very interested as I was reading, saying, what are they gonna talk about?
So let’s bring this in and say, so first what the thrust itself makes. And so I’m reading now from the middle of there. First it, the thrust, which is what? First referencing it makes possible absolute accuracy in replacement. And I love that instead of saying we’re realigning the spine, we’re replacing it, we’re replacing that in the better position.
Second, the thrust produces a simultaneous alteration of the tension of the ligaments and muscles, thereby tending to fasten or fix the displaced structure in normal position until. And this is combining osteopathy and chiropractic thought processes until the freed flow of blood and nervous energy has had time to partially or completely restore normal conditions to the weakened structures.
Wow, that is a beautiful sentence there. ’cause that’s exactly, isn’t that homeostasis, isn’t that What we’re trying to do is bring homeostasis to this particular individual, this child, this adult, this pregnant mom, et cetera. And then he goes on to say then I should say, go on to say this is accomplished by the production of spontaneity.
Spontaneity, which as necessary to to prompt resumption of dormant or restricted function. So I’m like spontaneity, like I, I’m thinking spontaneous. That’s not, where did that word come from? So let’s talk about that. So this is what they mean by spontaneity. Spontaneity is the result of a subtle force.
By virtue of which the inherent power contained within a structure is aroused from a dormant or passive state and rendered active to the extent of assisting materially in the recuperation of Now, I don’t like saying diseased. I’d rather say dis diseased, but this was 1906, so we’ll give that to them.
This dis diseased structure involved another beautiful sentence. The spontaneity is a result of a subtle force. What’s the subtle force? It’s an adjustment. Now this is very interesting because way back then, if you remember in 1910, in Palmer’s 1910, the chiropractic adjuster, he talks about racking the spine, right?
So racking isn’t subtle. So I, I find this very interesting. So this is that there’s just already in 1906, they’re starting to. Theoretically push some of the only chiropractic is this high velocity kind of adjustment to more subtle force. By virtue of the inherent power containment, a structure is aroused, right?
Isn’t that innate intelligence, right? That’s the innate intelligence that’s in our bodies, in our systems, from a dormitory, passive state. In other words, the innate intelligence is not being able to flow the way it ought to flow, and now rendered active to the extent of assisting materially in the recuperation.
Wow. So I think that is a beautiful term, the term spontaneous thrust we’ve already known, right? Thrust is something we talk about, with chiropractic and especially if full spine or Gonstead or Thompson, the thrust isn’t, that’s an inherently common word in chiropractic, but the word spontaneity, there’s a beautiful word.
There’s a beautiful word because I really think that the term spontaneity indicates what it is that we do and what happens when we do it. ’cause like we have the thrust, we know that. But then what happens is the body goes into the state of spontaneity where it arouses this inactive state or less active, more dormant state into a, an active state.
What, how beautiful is that? And then, so I kept on thinking like, what is this term spontaneity like, how would I. Present day, right? So 120 some odd years later, how would I term it? I like my, this is my favorite little dictionary, thesaurus thing online called word hippo. I dunno if you know about it, but it’s, they’re fun.
So in word of Hippo, spontaneity says the context of spontaneity is characterized by energy of life. Liveliness, the state of quality of being without guile, cunning, or deceit. So in other words, it’s it’s real. It’s a real thing. A sudden desire or change of mind, especially one that is unusual or unexplained and someone’s ability to act in response to something that happens.
Now there, I really liked it. I really liked saying so the, if there’s spontaneity happening within nerve system, I. That thrust happens and it creates this spontaneity, which now creates the more active version of innate intelligence to do the healing that was maybe lacking or limited for whatever reason.
So I think this is beautiful. I think this is a beautiful thing and I’ve never seen it before and that’s why I want to share, this with you, with modernized chiropractic that and I’m getting part two, there’s a part two of the book. At some point I’m gonna share some some interesting things from part two, but I think I.
This is really, this is a word that maybe we should think about using in chiropractic is spontaneity and using it in this kind of thought process is that the body’s ability to act in response to something that happens to the thrust that happens and the thrust, as they talked about before, right?
The thrust here, it doesn’t talk about, heavy duty thrust. It talks about subtle. It’s a subtle thrust, so I think, oh, here it’s subtle force, so it doesn’t have to be a heavy duty force. It doesn’t have to be anything significant. It could be even, a one Newton force with something like, a tonal technique.
This is, to me, I think it’s a beautiful way of bringing full circle back to where chiropractic started way back in the late 18 hundreds and early 19 hundreds. I’m doing a lot of seminars, as you guys know. I speak for the ICPA. And not only am have I changed completely my ICPA seminar.
It is now of really reflecting the brain-based adjusting that I’ve been talking about in the last couple of years. Here on CHI Secure Plus I’ve added two online pediatric midline defects, virtual seminars where we’ll be talking about tongue tie, lip tie. SP ties, all those kind of things. There’s been so many questions about it.
So we’re doing that in April and December if you’re interested. And of course I do a podcast. I last week, 600th episode. Woo. I’m honored and I’m amazed to think that we’ve been doing this since 2015 is one of the longest running. Podcasts. Most podcasts don’t even last to a hundred episodes.
Let on loan 300, I think it’s 3%. The podcast last to 300 episodes. So 600 is a blessing and I appreciate all your guys’ attention with it. So I. I always end like this. I thank ChiroSecure’s for having us. ChiroSecure’s has been an amazing help in our profession over the years. What it has done for chiropractic is truly amazing the way Dr.
Hoffman and his sons have really helped chiropractic that supported life, university and many other places. It’s really appreciated. So thank you so much, Kaiser Secure. Thank you so much. Listeners, if you have questions, email me or email Kaiser Secure and they’ll send us stuff to me because I’d love to answer any more questions you have about modernized chiropractic and what it means for us to have our own 2025 modernized chiropractic.
Thank you so much. I’ll see you next time.
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